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Germany hopes to relive World Cup ‘fairytale’ with Euro 2024

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As Germany prepares to host Euro 2024, the 2006 World Cup -- the last major international football tournament on German soil -- still plays a formative role in the nation's collective consciousness.

, the 2006 World Cup — the last major international football tournament on German soil — still plays a formative role in the nation’s collective consciousness.

Off the field, the tournament changed not only the way the world saw Germany, but the manner in which Germany saw itself. “And then the World Cup started and during Germany’s first game against Costa Rica, Philipp Lahm scored and the sun burst through — it was almost like something from the Bible.” Wolfgang Maennig, a rower who won gold for Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, is now a professor of sports economics at Hamburg University.In an interview with AFP, Maennig said while the economic benefits of large events were often negligible, “the feel-good effect was the essence of the 2006 World Cup.”

 

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